Hong Kong

Amnesty International has announced the launch of a new Hong Kong section based overseas, following the closure of its offices in the city in 2021 amid a ...

Amnesty International has designated three prominent human rights defenders from Hong Kong and mainland China as prisoners of conscience. Human rights lawyers Chow Hang-tung and Ding Jiaxi, ...

The International Bar Association’s Human Rights Institute (IBAHRI) has expressed serious concern about the Hong Kong Safeguarding National Security Law (SNS Law) that came into force on ...

The time may have come for British judges to resign from judicial roles in Hong Kong, former Supreme Court president Lady Hale has suggested. The retired judge's ...

A 90-year-old Catholic cardinal was detained by police in Hong Kong under the region's national security law. Joseph Zen, a former bishop of Hong Kong, was arrested ...

Six British judges have resisted calls to stand down from Hong Kong's Court of Final Appeal, after sitting judges Lord Reed and Lord Hodge stepped down from ...

President of the Supreme Court Lord Reed has resigned as a judge of the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal a day before he is due to ...

A court in Hong Kong relied on a ruling by judges including Lord Reed to jail a member of the territory's parliament. Fernando Cheung, 64, a former ...

An attempt by prosecutors in Hong Kong to charge people for rioting or illegal assembly, even if they are not physically present, has been thrown out by ...

Hong Kong's leader has told lawyers to stay out of politics as the pro-Beijing regime seeks to gain greater control over the legal system. Carrie Lam, chief ...

Lord Neuberger has agreed to remain a judge of Hong Kong's top court for another three years, The Times reports. The former Supreme Court president's decision comes ...

A peer has predicted that the Chinese authorities will sack the British judges who sit on Hong Kong's highest court amid the withdrawal of a barrister who ...

British judges could be asked to rule on cases brought under controversial new national security legislation imposed on Hong Kong this week, a senior Hong Kong judge ...